Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-02


and as more and more orchards and
vineyards came into bearing the market
grew and their business increased. In 1885
they shipped Is 036 boxes peaches plums,
3167 boxes: prunes. l59 boxes; apples.
2,41S boxes; pears, 2,949 boxes; grapes,
1867 boxes and | 654 crates; nectariaes,
leo boxes apricots, SOC boxes; bleckber-
RES 4. 1853 cases; strawberries, 1915 cases
raspbarries, 1884 cases cherries, $3.50
boxes; tomatoes, $50 boxes. In 1888 they
shipped 10s carloads of all kinds of fruit
this season they expect to ship js0 carloads.
1t is a busy scene during the forenoon
around these great fruit packing and ship
ping houses when the 200 horticulturists
are bringing in their rich and luscious
looking fruit But the most beautiful
sight in the whole foothills is the growing
fruit trees and vines
SURROUNDING FRUIT SECTION.
In whatever direction you may drive out
from Newcastle you see fruit farms. The
valleys and hillsides are covered with long
rows of well-cultivated trees loaded with
fruit. or vines heavily laden with big
punches of grapes, and among these is
neat house embowered in a grove of
orange, lemon and pomegranate trees, and
embarked With every rare flower.
To describe all the orchards and vine
yards would fill volume, and list of
them would require more space than this
article affords. A mention of few of
them will serve to show the home-seeker
the possibilities of these foothill soils, and
what industrious men with small means
can do
7. Brannsn, one. mile west OF Newcastle,
came here FIVE years ago with SIS in cash.
and expended $40 of it in lumber and
nails, with which he built a cabin. He
had team and some tools, and sold wood
raised fowls and small fruits, while his
fruit trees and grape vines were growing to
bearing age. Now he has forty acres of
fruit land, eight acres in bearing trees, and
he has made beautiful home of it. He
which this season he has sold $3.50 worth
of berries. His fruit trees will produce
1000 worth of fruit. This place is handy
to the station for any newcomer to see.
]. A. Robinson came to the vicinity
of Newcastle five years ago and bought 160
acres of land for 81 900. OF this 160 acres
he sold so acres and improved the remain
ing so acres Now he has 40 acres in fruit
trees, vines and small fruits; 80 acres is
bearing fruit. From one acre of black
berries he has sold $500 worth of fruit and
his tree fruits will sell for 81 900, and give
him neat sum of $1,000. He values his
place at 1900.
G. Carlson was miner, and worked for
big wages in mining times, located near
Newcastle four years ago on forty acre
lot now has 10 acres in fruit, which is
now in frst-year bearing. He has taken
$500 worth of small fruit from be-
tween the rows of trees this sea-
son. He is delighted with his change from
wage-winner working under ground to a
fruit-grower on his own land, " \ o more
mining for me" he says.
G. w. Bonds has 40 acres land and IA
acres fruit. mostly peaches, pears and cher
ries. He has 100 orange trees, and will
plant the balance of the land in fruit of
various kinds next season. Mr.. Bonds
formerly travelled for mercantile house,
and HAD to come to the foothills for his
health, and now looks as rugged as cow
boy, and is delighted with the change.
w. J. Wilson is a pioneer fruit-grower
In the early days of gold mining he dug up
q piece of ground, and raised vegetables
and small fruits for the miners. these ne
packed on his back or trundled on a wheel
barrow to the miners. From this he has
grown year by year by hard work and good
management to own rs acres of land, Go of
which is in bearing fruit. He has so acres
c ee fruits, and 10 acres of the choicest
van .eties of grapeyines. He has So ounce,
pomegranate, 16 peach, 2, 156; apricot, ITO;
plum, 243 cherry, 500; orange. 312; lemon,
"a; figs 5, and pears 200 trees. He cultiyatcs
small fruits between rows of fruit trees,
and has 10 acres strawberries; acres
blackberries, and acres raspberries. His
blackberries this season averaged 800 per
acre; raspberries $500 per acre, and his
strawberries $500 per acre. The fruits net
4 sum that is more than ten per cent on
5000. From fruit-growiug and packing
on his back to mines, Mr.. Wilson row
ships from his house of W. J. Wilson &
Son, more than 100 carloads of fruit for
himself and his neighbors. There can be
no better example OF what this sell will do
when industry and energy are devoted to
develop it than this one of air Wilson.
q. l.. Adams IS a neighbor of Mr. Wilson
and he has sixty-acre farm. on which are
thirty acres of vineyard. His vines aver
age i've tons to the acre, and the grapes sell
for two cents per pound, which gives him
$500 per acre for his grapes. His trees are
not ali in full bearing but it yields him
s. 600 per year.
William Barter has thirty-ive acres in
orchard; J. A. Elliott forty acres of fruit
II. J. Becker, forty acres; A. s. Whittemore
has four acres in small fruits. These small
fruits have been, and still are, very profit
able to their owners.
Mr.. Chas. Gross is newcomer from
Louisiana. This is his first year He
bought forty-tiye acres on which there is q
ten-acre orchard of trees from one to three
years old. From the three-year-old trees
he will get some fruit, but his income TO
support a family is derived from small
fruit. Mr.. Gross likes the climate here
much better than that of Louisiana.
W. b. Ges;er has sixty acres of land be-
tween Newcastle and Auburn, ten acres of
grape vines in bearing, and seven acres of
fruit trees also in bearing. He also has
small fruits
Mr.. Gester was civil engineer in New
York State and was obliged to leave there
on account of the severity of the winters.
Here he has regained his health, and is sat
isiied with fruit growing. a H. SchnabeI
has seventy-acre fruit orchard one mile
south of Newcastle, on which he has $500
Bartlett pear trees, 500 French and Hun
garian prunes, $50 peach, 100 cherry, $50
apricot, 4650 peach trees.
The Boles orchard, owned by Avery 4
Berry, five miles south of Newcastle, has
fifty acres in fruit. This is fine orchard.
and all the trees are doing remarkably well,
but the cherry trees are the most notice
able. There are eight acres in cherries
from one to twenty years old, $50 of which
are the old ones, and now yield abundantly
The eight acres produced s., 900 worth of
cherries.
y. VI ItIcu. lDTiy dCreS IN vines ana
trees, which show great care and labor,
and yield fine return.
DR.. J. NJ. Frey has fifteen acres adioin-
ing Newcastle. all in the choicest fruit trees
and vines, and under the most perfect cul-
uvation. 1t was seventeen years ago
when broken down with severe profess
sional labors, that the doctor came to his
present place for healthy location.
There on g high, slightly knoll,
covered here and there with gran
lite bouldeIs. but with a deep,
nne granite soil. he determined TO make a
home ana regain his health VI to that
time citrus trees had been planted only for
ornament. The doctor was familiar with
the requirements OF that fruit, and he
knew that everything requisite existed
there. ana he planted forty orange trees
with view 70 engage in that production
for commercial purposes. He now has all
the choicest varieties of deciduous frEits.
He also has large number of choice
flowers and Towering shrubs. His place is
ono of the mos picturesque in the world,
and yields him fine income.
Robert Hector has 500 acres of land five
miles from Newcastle. He has about )
acres OF fruit, all on the dark alluvial soil
of the American river bottom. All his
trees are maryeis of luxur;ant growth.